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Thursday, June 7, 2012

The different styles of Sweet - OTT LOLITA

I want to start a new series: "The different styles of Sweet". For many people, Sweet Lolita is just every outfit with pastel colors, mainly pink, and cute accesoires. But as a big Sweet Lolita fan myself, I know that this style has many sub-styles to offer. Like Classic Lolita is influenced by Mori Girl or Dolly Kei, so is Sweet Lolita also influenced by other fashion styles. And in opposite to Classic Lolita, the Sweet style has it's own names for each direction ^_^

Of course you don't have to draw a line between the sub-styles, sometimes you even can't, but some people do and I want to help you to understand the differences. For me, it helps to create a good coordinated outfit if I can think of a particular sub-style while searching for accesoires, socks and so on.

My first style will be OTT-Lolita, the most used word to discribe an outfit which is not 'normal' Sweet Lolita.

OTTLOLITA

OTT Lolita is not based on other japanese fashion styles. Of
course they use some elements from other fashions, but in general it's just a
crazier version of Sweet Lolita.

Hair:

The hair is usually voluminous and/or in unusual colors. Curly
fluffy pigtails with long hair is the most favourite hair style. The hair color
can be everything, from blond and black to pastel colors to vibrant blue. Also
mulitcolored hair is common. It's important that the hair color matches the
outfit. To achieve this look, 99% of the OTT Lolitas wear wigs or half wigs.

Accessoires:

Even if OTT means 'over the top' aka 'too much', OTT Lolitas
don't overfill their outfits with accesoires like you do in Decora Fashion. OTT
Lolitas just use many accesoires to create a very detailed outfit.

OTT Lolitas love if everything matches together, that means if
you are wearing a dress with pony print, you most likely also wear a pony bag,
pony necklace, pony socks...It cost a lot of time to collect all the matching
accessoires, so it's like the cream of the top if you can wear them
alltogether.

Prints:

Print dresses are most used, because they give the outfit easily
this busy, detailed 'over the top'-look. Also, the outfits are usually build
around their print. But it is also possible to wear one-colored dresses and
create the OTT-look through your hairstyle and accesoires.

Other Typical Elements:

These elements are not used by everyone and all at one time, but
that are elements which are not used often in the other Lolita styles except
Sweet Lolita.